He admired Indian culture, and for that reason, he gave a loan at minimal interest for the re-establishment of Nalanda University (an ancient Indian knowledge center of learning Indic culture) which was destroyed by the Islamic tyrant Bakhtiyar Khilji.
We live in a world where some so-called oppressed folk has special privileges i.e. to scoff at anyone's belief but no one can do the same with theirs. And now when they got the taste of their own medicine, it is pricking.